Virtual Issue: Novel Ecosystems in the Anthropocene

August 2016

The theme of the 2016 Ecological Society of America meeting is “Novel Ecosystems in the Anthropocene”. The BES journals team agree that given our rapidly changing climate it is more important than ever to increase our understanding of basic ecological principals so that we can predict species responses to changing and novel ecosystems. All the BES journals welcome submissions that attempt to solve these problems. This Virtual Issue compiles some of our best research into the ecology of this new epoch and we hope that the below articles will be of interest to researchers and managers working in this important area.